Jess Cockerill

science and culture journalist. writing and checking the facts at @sciencealert. i also make art sometimes 🌏

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

@masterofthenuts Thanks for reading! You will also see that in the article it states "IleR [the amino acid the headline refers to] reduces frailty and increases lifespan, with stronger effects on male lifespan". The section you have quoted refers to reduced overall amino acid intake.

[Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ @Revkin]

Fine @jess_cockerill story on a fascinating hypothesis about the bizarre Siberian blast-style permafrost holes I wrote on long ago. Links appended shortly. 1/

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

@Shiloh21912822 So glad you appreciate the article! And thanks for letting me know about that typo, working to fix it now :)

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

Fun kelp news! Some ocean grazers help 'pollinate' kelp in their poo! https://t.co/LvoSYguasU via @ConversationEDU

[Deep Sea Research Centre @deepseauwa]

A stunning midnight blue #deepsea Cuttroat Eel to kick off your weekend.
Synaphobranchus sp
Gascoyne Marine Reserve
1153m
Footage thanks to @ausmarineparks @minderoo @wamuseum through the Our Marine Parks Grant @UWAresearch @BiolSci_UWA

[Todd Bond @DrToddBond]

Friday feels...
Filmed 1153m Gascoyne Marine Reserve with
@ausmarineparks @minderoo @wamuseum @deepseauwa through the Our Marine Parks Grant.
@UWAresearch @BiolSci_UWA @uwanews
#deepsea #seacucumber

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

https://t.co/ivLlZwDHC0

[Jonas Frei @jdfrei]

Seedpods from the genus #Eucalyptus with over 600 species native to Australia and Indonesia.

[Gina Rushton @ginarush]

Today we bring you a series showcasing how journalists, politicians and citizens use FOI requests to bring you important stories and hold the government accountable despite delays, redactions and rejections ahead of a Senate inquiry into the broken system
https://t.co/5GRhU5Lt03

[brandonhare the cool and neat @double_bucket_]

i had almost finished arranging my collection of delicate and fragile crystal goblets into a large pyramid up to the ceiling

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

I ❤️ earthquake

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

#felt !

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

@PatchTheFlower Woah!

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

any day you see a mushroom in the ground is a good day

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

I do appreciate when authors get more creative with their wording - science reports can get pretty formulaic, mix it up, fair enough. But in my undergrad they gave us (or at least me) the impression those explicit hypothesis sentences were sort of non-negotiable.

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

Huge news!! I'm reading a research paper that *actually* ~literally~ says "we hypothesise"!!! And then in the discussion it *actually* ~literally~ says "this hypothesis was supported"!!! I was beginning to think maybe scientists don't *do* hypotheses any more 💁🏼

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

Scientists in China have impregnated female macaques with engineered monkey embryos which is pretty wild. I wrote about it for @ScienceAlert mainly because i couldnt understand why??? they tried to do this? (spoiler, I didn't really find a good reason)
https://t.co/yR2T8gmQuH

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

An ethereal blue glimmer just below the waterline has lured scientists like wisps from folklore to three new glowing species of marine bristle worm - let me introduce you 💙 https://t.co/670vqG0SMp

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

Home! With a djidi djidi, pied cormorants, a silver gull, and (offscreen) pied / sooty oystercatchers and ravens. Last time I returned there was no sand here, just bare limestone and anenomes and bluebottles. Now they're all buried I guess.

[Jess Cockerill @jess_cockerill]

There are so many mysterious holes on the seafloor and i want them to stay that way, stop trying to solve the holes!!!

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Mysterious deep-sea holes may be burrows of tiny shrimp-like creatures https://t.co/sKvnfXB5j1